Few movies have been panned by critics but widely accepted by viewers across the nation. National Treasure is one of them. Even after receiving sub par reviews including only two stars from Roger Ebert, National Treasure won over the public, earning almost $350 million worldwide. Even though the movie is under the Walt Disney Company and has a PG rating, this movie is not just for children. Superb acting and action from beginning to end will keep people of all ages glued to their seat as they follow one man’s quest for a hidden treasure.
Benjamin Franklin Gates, played by Nicolas Cage, comes from a family of treasure hunters. When he was young, Gates found out that his family’s job is to guard a treasure hidden by the Founding Fathers. The hidden clues lead to the whereabouts of the country's currency and a crucial clue can be found on the back of the Declaration of Independence. The only problem is that the clues are highly cryptic and are scattered all over the country. After an initial clue from Gates’ grandfather, he heads to a sunken ship, the Charlotte, in Alaska where he believes the treasure is. He is disappointed when it only leads to another clue located on the back of the Declaration of Independence. To make matters worse, Gates has found out that one of his partners, Ian Howe played by Sean Bean, is going after the treasure as well. In order to protect the treasure, Gates decides to warn the proper authorities of the planned robbery. When nobody believes him, Gates is forced to steal the document with the help of his sidekick Riley Poole played by Justin Bartha. The movie’s motto helps describe this situation perfectly by stating “In order to break the code, one man will have to break all the rules.”
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... movie. During the chase scenes dramatic and heart pumping music makes the audience feel as if they were involved in the actual chase.
Action/Adventure movies have one purpose, and that is to have the audience on the edge of their seat for the duration of the movie. National Treasure accomplishes that feat. Staci Layne Wilson of The Fantastica Daily recaps the movie perfectly by writing “Secret societies revealed a quest for the truth and treasure, a hateful bad guy, and a good guy and good girl who share some romance along the way.” National Treasure has something for everyone and this film will keep audiences of all ages glued to the screen. Even though the movie can be deemed unrealistic at times, those who can get beyond that fact will truly enjoy the movie. National Treasure is a must see for action/adventure fans and can be found in stores on DVD.
Saving Private Ryan Saving Private Ryan portrays the experiences of the mysterious Captain John Miller and his army ranger Squad. The story accurately depicts what could have happened to a comparable unit mission shown to have actually existed. No Saving Private Ryan character ever existed. Furthermore, it is unlikely that Saving Private Ryan’s mission ever would have been ordered. The mission shown is improbable because the United States Army sole survivor policy “is applicable only in peacetime.”
For example, Marlowe discovers that Geiger's books store was a smut book racket, the identity of Carmen's blackmailer and his murderer, what really happened to Eddie Mars's wife and the identity of Sean Regan's murderer. Nonetheless, the resulting fast paced plot engages the viewer. Unlike reading a novel, watching a movie involves one's auditory senses. In this case, music was carefully composed and selected to emphasize the confusion and rush. For example, fast paced music creates a feeling of tension and can be used to build suspense.
"HER ORIGINAL NAME was Patricia Neal"(Reynolds1), but the author of Fried Green Tomatoes is better known under the alias: Fannie Flagg. In the novel Fried Green Tomatoes she uniquely compares the modern day world to the world in the early and the middle 1900’s. As the novel shifts from the 1930’s to the 1980’s the significance of life is seen through two of the main characters, Mrs. Cleo Threadgoode and Evelyn Couch, as life ends and begins. Fannie Flagg shows that living life to its fullest indeed has its consequences, but is the only way to live a happy life without regrets.
Movies have different genres. They range from documentaries to science fiction films. Some may be make believe with a very enticing theme, or they consist of straight facts that may or may not bore the audience depending on what the particular individual finds interesting. A particular movie depicts an event that occurs in 1986 where a small town's elementary school became the target to a genius lunatic. What is a miracle? Well, The Cokeville Miracle has a lasting impression on anyone who views it because it is based on a real event, the "coincidences", and the background music.
On March 3, 1915 the movie The Birth of a Nation was released at the Liberty Theatre in New York City. This film was financed, filmed, and released by the Epoch Producing Corporation of D.W. Griffith and Harry T. Aitken. It was one of the first films to ever use deep-focus shots, night photography, and to be explicitly controversial with the derogatory view of blacks.
...and several more keeps you and your emotions on a roller coaster ride. Which is brilliant because we all know that as humans we adhere to stimulation and that is what it does, it stimulates us by incorporating all these emotions and jumping around with them. With the movie it also adds a score and soundtrack as well as camera shots and things that appeals to our senses that much more. At least it does for me.
It was a cool, crisp November evening, while five teenagers were hustling and bustling around my house excitedly getting ready for their very first showing of the live version of their all time favorite movie. They knew it would be the best night of their lives. The night of my 15th birthday party, my friends and I all piled into my parents car around 11:00 PM and headed off down the road to the Heights Theater. The movie we are about to see is an all time classic. The Rocky Horror Picture Show is the best cult film of all time. The movie has all the three basic elements it should have. It has funny audience participation, wonderful acting, and a great story line.
The book I read and am doing a presentation on is called Saving Private Ryan by Max Allen Collins. Saving Private Ryan is about the heroism of soldiers of soldiers and their duty during wartime, World War Two. This story is to remind you, the reader, that war is nothing but hell, orders on the front line can be brutal, and absurd. The story is set in Europe of 1944, as the Nazis are still advancing and taking over cities and countries. On June 6th, 1944, Captain Miller, and hundreds of other men leave Europe to accomplish one mission, Operation Overlord, also known as D-Day. When they get there, there will be a new task awaiting them.
“Raging Bull” (1980) is not a so much a film about boxing but more of a story about a psychotically jealous, sexually insecure borderline homosexual, caged animal of a man, who encourages pain and suffering in his life as almost a form of reparation. Martin Scorsese’s masterpiece of a film drags you down into the seedy filth stenched world of former middleweight boxing champion Jake “The Bronx Bull” LaMotta. Masterfully he paints the picture of a beast whose sole drive is not boxing but an insatiable obsessive jealously over his wife and his fear of his own underling sexuality. The movie broke new ground with its brutal unadulterated no-holds-bard look at the vicious sport of boxing by bringing the camera into the ring, giving the viewer the most realistic, primal, and brutal boxing scenes ever filmed. With blood and sweat spraying, flashbulbs’ bursting at every blow Scorsese gives the common man an invitation into the square circle where only the hardest trained gladiators dare to venture.
...im decides to tell Long John everything he did to try to ruin his plan to find the treasure he spares Jim’s life even though the other pirates want him dead. Long John also decides to stand by Jim even though he has a feeling his crew is going to take him out of his captain position. Jim shows a lot of courage and that he’s a man of his word when he is given the opportunity to run away but instead he decides to stay because he gave Long John his word that he will help him through his trial. Jim is taken to where the treasure is believed to be but when they dig up the area there was no treasure. The treasure is later discovered at site where Ben Gunn has hidden it. The reasons I mentioned earlier steers Jim in the right direction of the treasure because of him not trusting Long John but instead using his smarts and his very high maturity level to find the treasure.
“The Hunger Games” has been considered one of the top movies from the 21st century. It has everything you would want from a movie. Love, action, and comedy
The movie has left an unfavorable taste in my mouth with the unfortunate loss of Tom and Huck’s hunt for treasure. Huck and Tom were on a trek for treasure like pirates use to. They end up at a haunted house where they find Injun Joe and his partner discussing the location of a big sum of money. Huck and Tom listen intently with hope of finding the money. The first clue they used led them to a room in a tavern where Injun Joe laid passed out and drunk. Realizing the treasure isn’t located in a place but an area, they continue the search. Tom and Becky get lost in a cave while on a trip and eventually get rescued. Tom and Huck are about to give up when they realize the treasure is in the cave and retrieve it. The adventure and search of the treasure was an essential scene that should have been in the movie because, it shows how the treasure was found and its ties with Injun Joe.
Minority Report is a 2002 science fiction film directed by renowned director Steven Spielberg and is set in the year 2054 in Washington, D. C. The film revolves around an elite law enforcing squad; Precrime. The Precrime Division uses three genetically altered humans called Pre-Cogs whom possesses special powers to see into the future and predict crimes beforehand. After each crime is foreseen and analyzed, Precrime police officers are sent to the crime location to apprehend the future murderers and place them under arrest. The future murderers are then put into a sleep state with a device called a "halo". Based on Minority Report, it suggests that humans are free willed beings and have the ability to alter the future that was predetermined for them.
In the beginning of Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane, Teddy Daniels is intelligent, full of grit, clever and determined. Teddy believes he is a United States Marshal sent to Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane on Shutter Island with his partner Chuck, to investigate the case of an escaped patient, Rachel Solando. Rachel is said to be a very dangerous patient who murdered her three children. She somehow escapes her cell in the mental ward and is somewhere on the island. As soon as Teddy and Chuck hop off the ferry and onto the desolate island, they are greeted with aloofness and suspicion. None of the employees give them any real evidence of the missing patient and their answers seem to be scripted. The guards, wardens and doctors always keep an eye out for them. When they meet with the head psychologist, Dr. Cawley, he seems congenial and speaks allusively, holding back most of the information he knows about Rachel Solando. Despite the monster hurricane bearing down on the island, Teddy remains determined and strong. Refusing to give up, Teddy marches into the atrocious storm, persistent to locate Rachel. When Teddy and Chuck head out to look around the island, the intensity of the hurricane is described, “Ashcliffe shrouded to their left somewhere in the smash of wind and rain. It grew measurably worse in the next half hour, and they pressed their shoulders together in order to hear each other talk and listed like drunks” (139). The storm is heavily pounding the island yet, Teddy continues to fight through it no matter what happens. Another example of his grit is displayed when he climbs up an enormous cliff to reach a cave. In order to reach the cave he believes either Chuck is camping out in, Teddy ascends on an extre...
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider begins with Lara tomb raiding, searching for a diamond, unaware of her surroundings she is fiercely attacked by a robot that belonged to her assistant Bryce who is played by Noah Taylor. Furthermore, out of frustration Lara Croft disables the robot by targeting its control system then eventually leaving with the diamond she found and later discovers that it is in fact a memory card titled “Lara’s party mix.” In addition to her new finding, Lara recalls the importance of the solar eclipse and the formation of the planetary alignment; the significance of the solar eclipse is that it ties in to the illuminati rejoining halves of “The Triangle,” in order to complete the first phase of alignment. During this scene Manfred Powell, who is played by Lain Glen joins in as an illuminati member hoping to find the key for “the Triangle” but he is unsuccessful in doing so leaving his elite partners disappointed. This moment in the movie is also significant because the day of the first phase is also the day Lara Croft’s father vanished when she was younger on May 15.